I Said I Would Never...

... Be that mom whose kids are always sick and is always taking them to the doctor! I was the perfect parent before I had kids :) These kids have been sick for weeks now. I took Lucas in a few weeks ago for a 103 degree fever. I took Via in last week and it turned out she has RSV (or something like it). And even if I know what's wrong I will have to take them in for a prescription - like this morning for Via's pink eye. The funny thing, though, is this semester in my Medical Assisting Lab we have learned how to *correctly* use and care for a nebulizer, administer eye medication, and irrigate ears - I have done all three outside of class so far. Via has a nebulizer, with a cute little dinosaur mask, for bronchiolitis; Levi had me irrigate his ears, and I am now doing drops for pink eye. (When giving eye drops before, I had always had the person close their eyes and I put it in the corner by their nose and then blink. Well, if you do that, a bunch of the medication just drains down the nasolacrimal canal. Duh, Shaeli.)

I also said I would never co-sleep. Well, that worked with Lucas, but Princess Via falls asleep in our bed most nights. And she has to be held and snuggled up just right on her side with my arm around her and her head on my shoulder :) Silly girl!

I said I would never let my kids sleep on their tummies. Yeah. They don't sleep on their backs. I think they got so used to it and liked it so much in the NICU (where they slept on their tummies because they were hooked up to monitors), they just refuse to sleep much on their backs. Personally, I don't think tummy sleeping really does much to reduce the risk of SIDS, but that's another post in itself ;)

I said I would *try* to never let my kids frustrate me to the point of yelling... or swear in front of them. Ha! Let's just say that Levi asked me the other day what I'm gonna do when Lucas swears for the first time. Oops.

It is so very true how much you think you know about parenting until you become one! Even Levi gets comments from this guy at work about us maybe only having two kids. "What kind of a Mormon are you?" "Why don't you just adopt?" Really?? Do you have kids? No, you don't. Why don't you take mine for a few days AND keep up on homework and housework at the same time. Then you can make comments about our childrearing decisions. Okie dokie?

Alright, apparently I needed to vent :) Sorry. People are always surprised when they find out we have two kids already and are in school. But then they make some joke about poppin' out a basketball team and we reply, "No. I think we're actually done." Then they get all surprised that a Mormon family would dare think of only having two kids. Oh, brother. Such is life, I suppose...